Deadline for new video submissions for the 1minutetosavetheworld film competition has been extended to January 17, 2011!

If you have yet to submit your one-minute video about climate change and it’s impact on the environment make sure you do so before the deadline. Also, be sure to log on and vote for your favorite video thus far!

The Southern Youth Film Festival (SUFF) in partnership with the Minor Foundation for Major Challenges, DigiCape, NUFF, Tvibit and the Bart’s African Foundation is proud to announce that the Call for Entries for the Youth Film Competition 2010 is officially open.

SUFF International Short Film Festival is one of South Africa’s fastest growing festivals and consistently delivers a colourful celebration of the best in local and international short filmmaking made by Youth filmmakers.

Read on for more specific details on SUFF 2010!

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Imagine how this feels: The land and weather are turning erratic and dangerous. Warmer, unpredictable winds are coming from strange directions. Severe floods threaten to wash away towns. And native animals, the food supply, aren’t behaving as they used to, their bodies less capable in the changing climate.

Even stranger is the fact that the sun now appears to set many kilometres off its usual point on the horizon, and the stars are no longer where they should be. Guy Dixon from Canada’s the Globe and Mail asks the question – is the Earth shifting on its axis, causing the very look of the sun and stars to change?

These are the drastic conditions Northern Canadians, whose lives depend from childhood on their knowledge of the most minute details of the Arctic land and skies, say they see all around them. These observations by Inuit elders are detailed in a groundbreaking new documentary, Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, by acclaimed Nunavut filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk (The Fast Runner, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen) and environmental scientist Ian Mauro.

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Make a 1minute film on climate change and you could win £5000, laptops, Flipcams and the SONYNEXVG10 HD camcorder. Winning films will be screened in front of world leaders at COP16 in Mexico and be part of an on-line campaign going out to millions of viewers, they will also go to International Film Festivals in 2011.

1 Minute To Save The World is an international competition, open to all ages and free to enter. Judges include film industry giant Shekhar Kaphur, Passion Pictures, Ben Kott (Google Europe Environmental Operations) and the UK Copenhagen 4 (youth climate change activists). Competition deadline is 17th December (12th November for under 18 age group).

In partnership with Unicef, Passion Pictures, United Nations Development Program, APE (Artist Project Earth) and Sony.

See below for more!

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Our partners and independent filmmakers network Shooting People are currently supporting MOFILM’s Rome Film Festival competition. They’re looking for filmmakers to create engaging ads for one (or more) of 7 brands.

These need not be dry or dull – the opposite in fact. They want to see creative and  unique approaches to the briefs.

For your efforts you have the chance of picking up a lot of prizes, including $82,000, a car, a trip to one of two eco-tourism resorts in Australia and India, 5 Kodak Zi8 Digital Video Cameras, 5 Nokia technology packs and round trip airfare for you and a guest to Rome plus 3 nights accommodation.

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There are films that every once in a while move you without the need of a choreographed plot to take you there. In fact, the director purposely decided not to put any narration or music in this film.  This story, the story captured by documentary filmmaker Tomoko Kana, brilliantly depicts three cities under environmental siege thanks to the growing threat of climate change.

The film, “The Beautiful Islands” looks at three land masses shaken by climate change: Tuvalu in the South Pacific, Venice in Italy, and Shishmaref in Alaska. The islands all have different climates and cultures, but the people all love their native lands.

The film, which took three years to shoot, focuses on their daily lives. It portrays festivals that foster ties among the people, traditional crafts which have been passed on for generations, and peaceful lives by the water. They are all disappearing by climate change.

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Are you an aspiring environmental activist, who, like us, wishes to combat the challenges of climate change? Could you join us in being a voice for the planet? We are recruiting a team of citizen journalists from around the world to comment on the growing global threat of climate change and want your help!

If you are over the age of 18 and under 25 and would like to take your camera skills to a whole new level, please send 1 minute films a 60 second video on an environmental or climate change-related issue that you want to tackle head on! The most unique and inspired videos will be featured on our website. The very best of the best filmmakers will then be invited to join our team as a Feature Citizen Journalist. His or her voice will be on a platform alongside campaigners, politicians, writers and climate scientists, whose voices will be shared with an international audience.

We would like to hear from you about local issues in your community or country that are related to climate change impact, adaptation or mitigation. Your video could be of local flora, fauna or wildlife in your area that is being threatened by climate change or pollution; it could be of local events that are happening to help raise awareness to the threat of climate change. We want to be informed about what is happening to our world from your distinct point of view.

You may want to make your piece less journalistic and more personal, voicing your own opinions directly to camera. You may wish to go out and use your camera to interview people in your area such as local government officials. You can even work with a friend or team should you wish. Creative leeway is completely in your hands. You can submit a maximum of 2 films per group or individual so you can send your top two 1 minute ideas to 1 minute films.

All you have to do is upload your video to your preferred video hosting site, then send the link to pete[at]1minutefilms.org along with your name, country or region, age and contact email.

Only together can we help bring climate change to a screeching halt! We look forward to sharing your unique point of view with the international community.